"Dispersal of the population is therefore a domestic strategic aim of the highest order; otherwise, we shall cease to exist within any borders. Judea, Samaria and the Galilee are our sole guarantee for national existence, and if we do not become the majority in the mountain areas, we shall not rule in the country and we shall be like the Crusaders, who lost this country which was not theirs anyhow...Rebalancing the country demographically, strategically and economically is the tightest and most central aim today."
— Oded Yinon (taken from Schoenman's The Hidden History of Zionism)
"Sometimes you cannot gain peace and security without territorial gains." Said after the 1967 War, p.223
— Abba Eban as Foreign Minister
Sami Hadawi, Bitter Harvest.
"It's not a matter of maintaining the status quo. We have to create a dynamic state, oriented towards expansion."
— Former Israeli Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion
"The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to fulfill -- From the Nile to the Euphrates."
— Former Israeli Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion
"We should prepare to go over to the offensive. Our aim is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, and Syria. The weak point is Lebanon, for the Moslem regime is artificial and easy for us to undermine. We shall establish a Christian state there, and then we will smash the Arab Legion, eliminate Trans-Jordan; Syria will fall to us. We then bomb and move on and take Port Said, Alexandria and Sinai."
— Former Israeli Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion
May 1948, to the General Staff. From Ben-Gurion, A Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978.
"Take the American Declaration of Independence. It contains no mention of territorial limits. We are not obliged to fix the limits of the State."
— Former Israeli Defense Minister, Moshe Dayan
Jerusalem Post, 08/10/1967
"The Gaza Strip is Israel's, and steps will be taken to make it part of this country." Said after the 1967 War.
— Former Israeli Defense Minister, Moshe Dayan
Sami Hadawi, Bitter Harvest.
